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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:50:16 -0500
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On 2/4/2025 9:12 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2025-02-04, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>> In article <vnrqm8$1i9dg$1@dont-email.me>,
>> cshenk@virginia-beach.com says...
>>>
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2025-02-02 4:56 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>> On 2/2/2025 12:05 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Vegetarians won't consume anything that kills an animal.  Vegans
>>>>>> won't consume anything that inconveniences an animal.
>>>>>>
>>>>> That's a great way to explain it!  A woman in the building where I
>>>>> work  has tried tried a couple of my recipes.  They just so
>>>>> happened not to  contain meat (my yellow squash casserole recipe
>>>>> and spinach & feta  quiche) but were definitely not vegan.  She
>>>>> asked if I ever cook vegan  food.  I know she's not a vegan or even
>>>>> a vegetarian so I had no problem laughing.
>>>>
>>>> I have a number of vegetarian recipes in my repertoire. We were
>>>> eating them as part of the heart healthy thing which we sort of
>>>> slipped away from. I had been thinking about getting back to them.
>>>> Last night I did the vegetarian pizza. Maybe this week I will do the
>>>> chick pea curry.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have no problem with people eating vegetarian meals or living on a
>>>> vegetarian diet. I don't want to hear the moral superiority nonsense.
>>>> I also have issues with the faux meat grab. If you don't want to eat
>>>> meat eat vegetables and legumes. There is no need to process
>>>> vegetables and stuff to make something that you think feels and
>>>> tastes like meat. If you want that taste and feel of meat, eat meat.
>>>
>>> I get the same giggle you do at the faux meat.  Anyways, I kinda have
>>> had different experiences overall with vegetarians and vegans.  I don't
>>> know any (lucky me!) that make a fuss over it  If I met one, I
>>> disassociate from them gently and steer clear of them.
>>
>>     More fool you.
>>
>>     Two of the best cooks I know, are a vegan and a
>> vegetarian.
> 
> I think she steers clear only if they're militant.
> 
I'm pretty sure that's what Carol meant.  I have a good friend who is a 
vegetarian.  We don't preach at each other about food choices.  His g/f 
isn't a vegetarian, either, and he doesn't try to convert her.

Jill